Kate Trotter

Acting

Kate Trotter

Born

1953-02-05 (73)

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Kate Trotter (born February 5, 1953) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. Her television roles include appearances in Wild Roses, Covert Affairs, Lost Girl, The Newsroom, Paradise Falls, Earth: Final Conflict, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Jane Show, Republic of Doyle, Blue Murder, Murdoch Mysteries and Sue Thomas F.B. Eye, while her film roles have included Beyond Borders, Joshua Then and Now, Murder in the Hamptons, Murder in Space, Taking a Chance on Love, Clarence and Tru Love. She won a Gemini Award for Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series in 2003 for Blue Murder. Her stage roles have included Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Madge Kendal in The Elephant Man, Alma …

Known for

Monk poster
7.9

Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

Monk

2002

Murdoch Mysteries poster
7.7

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Murdoch Mysteries

2008

Heartland poster
8.2

Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?

Heartland

2007

Dracula: The Series poster
7.6

Dracula: The Series is a short-lived syndicated children's horror television series developed by Glenn Davis and William Laurin, about Count Dracula (aka Alexander Lucard; A. Lucard, if you will) and his struggles with Gustav Helsing, Gustav's young nephews Max and Chris Townsend, and schoolgirl Sophie Metternich, with whom Chris develops romantic feelings. The series formula is relatively straightforward, with the four heroes learning of some nefarious plot by Dracula and setting out to foil it, with some success. In keeping with the novel, but not most media lore, vampires can travel in sunlight but lack their abilities. Anyone bitten just once by a vampire transform into a zombie-like servant; this process is preventable by applying holy water to the bite.

Dracula: The Series

1990

Earth: Final Conflict poster
6.8

Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.

Earth: Final Conflict

1997

Relic Hunter poster
6.8

Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.

Relic Hunter

1999

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 9 titles

The Silence poster
6.0

With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

The Silence

2019

Upside Down poster
6.3

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

Upside Down

2012

The Christmas Club poster
6.3

Two busy strangers meet when they help an elderly woman find her lost Christmas savings. Thanks to fate and Christmas magic, they also find something they were both missing: true love.

The Christmas Club

2019

Compulsion poster
4.4

A strange and destructive relationship develops between a chef and her neighbor, a former child actress.

Compulsion

2013

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story poster
6.0

Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story

2010

Cold Deck poster
5.5

When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.

Cold Deck

2015

Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew poster
6.6

Anne heads to Charlottetown to attend accelerated classes as she continues to work towards her dream of being a school teacher. While there, she is forced to adapt quickly to her new surroundings and classmates as she navigates her way through her first school experience outside of her beloved Green Gables. Anne finds herself facing daunting choices for her future, the stirrings of romance, and tragedy unlike anything she's ever known. Meanwhile, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert contend with advancing age as they deal with financial challenges and creeping ailments.

Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew

2017

Tru Love poster
5.7

A lesbian with commitment issues befriends a widowed mother who is visiting her workaholic daughter.

Tru Love

2013

Vacation with Derek poster
6.6

Derek and Casey are back and continue their hilarious sibling rivalry during a family vacation to visit their grandmother at her beautiful lake front lodge. Things heat up with Casey when she meets Jesse, a handsome young dancer who is a waiter at the lodge. Meanwhile as Derek is "chilling" on his vacation, he falls for Roxy, the rich girl who lives across the lake. But when Roxy's father, a greedy land developer, threatens to destroy the natural beauty around them, the McDonald-Venturi kids band together to save the lake and the lodge.

Vacation with Derek

2010

2000s · 10 titles

Beyond Borders poster
6.4

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.

Beyond Borders

2003

Fallen Angel poster
6.3

When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.

Fallen Angel

2003

You Belong to Me poster
5.9

A radio psychologist who solves the murders of wealthy women finds her latest case is much deeper than she imagined-and it may cost her life!

You Belong to Me

2002

Murder in the Hamptons poster
5.2

Based on the true events leading up to the murder of multimillionaire Ted Ammon found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate while in the midst of a combative divorce and custody battle from his mentally unstable wife, Generosa Rand.

Murder in the Hamptons

2005

The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love poster
4.7

Columnist Peyton MacGruder befriends a reader who sent her a note that inspires Peyton to reconsider the choices she's made and her reluctance to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal.

The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love

2009

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story poster
4.8

True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

2002

The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying poster
NR

In late 19th century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch investigates the murder of a young girl found in the red light district. When a possible witness to the murder is also killed, Murdoch must stop the killer before he strikes again.

The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying

2004

Plain Truth poster
6.1

An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.

Plain Truth

2004

Cheaters' Club poster
2.5

A controversial therapist assembles a group of discontented wives and prescribes using adultery to save their failing marriages, only to have her patients killed off one by one.

Cheaters' Club

2006

City of Ruins: The Halifax Explosion poster
10.0

On the morning of December 6th 1917, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia was a bustling, lively place. But in less than a second, Halifax became the center of a tragedy like no other in the history of this country.

City of Ruins: The Halifax Explosion

2003

1990s · 8 titles

Free Fall poster
4.6

An NTSB investigator and her boyfriend, who works for the FAA, investigate a series of similar and suspicious plane crashes that seem to be affecting only one airline.

Free Fall

1999

Family of Cops poster
6.4

Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to two—the victim's sexually freewheeling wife Anna, and Paul's wild-child daughter Jackie. Neither Paul nor Eddie believe that Jackie could have committed the murder, and soon Paul is using himself as a decoy in a bid to find out more about what Anna does and doesn't know about her husband's death.

Family of Cops

1995

Alligator Pie poster
8.0

Nicholas uses his imagination to explore the world around him with a cast of cuddly characters.

Alligator Pie

1991

Bloodknot poster
5.2

A grieving family opens its household to an unknown woman who claims to have been their dearly departed's girlfriend.

Bloodknot

1995

Marie Curie: More Than Meets the Eye poster
8.0

During World War 1, the young Boudreau sisters decide to aid the war effort by catching spies. The strange activities of Nobel-Prize winning scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie make her a prime suspect. When the girls follow Curie to the battlefront, they witness her fight to use science and her X-ray machine to save the lives of the wounded, including their father.

Marie Curie: More Than Meets the Eye

1997

Stratford Festival: Romeo and Juliet poster
7.8

Stratford Festival's production of Romeo and Juliet 1993. Megan Porter Follows (Anne of Green Gables) and Antoni Cimolino (Stratford Festival Artistic Director) star in one of the most famous love stories of all time. The tale unfolds as the families of the star-crossed lovers, the Montagues and the Capulets, are embroiled in a bitter feud that erupts into a brawl. The couple plan a secret wedding, but fate intervenes and the two die tragically, precipitating a vow by the bereaved fathers to resolve their differences.

Stratford Festival: Romeo and Juliet

1993

Clarence poster
5.2

Spin off from the classic 1946 Jimmy Stewart film "It's A Wonderful Life" finds his protecting angel, Clarence, again returning to Earth to help another human.

Clarence

1990

Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story poster
7.3

Silken Laumann's dreams of winning gold at the 1992 Olympics are shattered after a training accident.

Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story

1996

1980s · 11 titles

Threshold poster
5.3

Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.

Threshold

1981

Joshua Then and Now poster
5.4

Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Joshua Then and Now

1985

Murder in Space poster
5.3

Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.

Murder in Space

1985

A Conspiracy of Love poster
8.0

A woman's husband apparently has deserted her and their daughter. So she decides to get on with her life which might include dissolving their union and seeing someone else. However, her in-laws, her husband's parents feel that she's acting very hastily, so she leaves their home with her daughter whom they love very much. She decides to limit their access to her daughter, but grandfather and granddaughter see each other on the sly.

A Conspiracy of Love

1987

That's My Baby! poster
4.3

This little heard of modest Canadian comedy drama revolves around a young hetero couple. The man wants to start a family but his partner is much more career focused.

That's My Baby!

1984

No artwork available
9.0

Two women attending a women's seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarrassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown together by chance, they discuss their emotional lives in intimate detail.

Martha, Ruth & Edie

1988

No artwork available
NR

The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.

The Suicide Murders

1985

The Plouffe Family poster
6.9

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

The Plouffe Family

1981

Connection poster
7.0

A half-hour drama based on a short story by Alice Munro in which a young woman has to deal with her snobbish husband when her aunt comes to dinner. The aunt is unsophisticated and perhaps boring, but the young wife comes to realize how this fat woman's warmth and humanity have so much more value than her husband's cold sophistication.

Connection

1986

No artwork available
5.0

A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.

The Running Man

1981

No artwork available
9.0

A British Columbia woman struggles to support herself and her daughter after the death of her husband. Nominated for achievements in editing and cinematography at the 11th Genie awards.

The First Season

1989

Series credits

Monk poster
7.9

Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

Monk

2002

Murdoch Mysteries poster
7.7

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Murdoch Mysteries

2008

Heartland poster
8.2

Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?

Heartland

2007

Dracula: The Series poster
7.6

Dracula: The Series is a short-lived syndicated children's horror television series developed by Glenn Davis and William Laurin, about Count Dracula (aka Alexander Lucard; A. Lucard, if you will) and his struggles with Gustav Helsing, Gustav's young nephews Max and Chris Townsend, and schoolgirl Sophie Metternich, with whom Chris develops romantic feelings. The series formula is relatively straightforward, with the four heroes learning of some nefarious plot by Dracula and setting out to foil it, with some success. In keeping with the novel, but not most media lore, vampires can travel in sunlight but lack their abilities. Anyone bitten just once by a vampire transform into a zombie-like servant; this process is preventable by applying holy water to the bite.

Dracula: The Series

1990

Earth: Final Conflict poster
6.8

Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.

Earth: Final Conflict

1997

Relic Hunter poster
6.8

Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.

Relic Hunter

1999

La Femme Nikita poster
7.4

Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.

La Femme Nikita

1997

Lost Girl poster
7.7

The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.

Lost Girl

2010

Due South poster
7.6

Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.

Due South

1994

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents poster
7.2

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1985

Covert Affairs poster
6.9

A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.

Covert Affairs

2010

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye poster
7.2

Based on a true story, this family-friendly series follows the adventures of a young, hearing impaired woman who has a special gift and goes to work for the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy – and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring notorious criminals to justice. This remarkable, edge-of-your-seat drama is an inspiring tribute to the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity and achieve great things.

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

2002

Republic of Doyle poster
7.0

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Republic of Doyle

2010

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues poster
6.7

Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

1993

The Ray Bradbury Theater poster
6.9

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

The Ray Bradbury Theater

1985

SurrealEstate poster
6.6

Aided by his own remarkable abilities and an eclectic team of associates, real estate agent Luke Roman specializes in “metaphysically engaged properties,” aka haunted houses. Together they investigate, clear and close the houses nobody else can.

SurrealEstate

2021

Friday the 13th: The Series poster
7.3

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

Friday the 13th: The Series

1987

ReGenesis poster
7.4

ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC, a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto. The organization investigates problems of a scientific nature, such as bio-terrorism, mysterious diseases or radical changes in environment throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico. NorBAC is headed by David Sandström, the chief scientist and molecular biologist. Through this character the show often addresses topical social, political and ethical issues related to the science at hand. The series was originally seen on The Movie Network and Movie Central with rebroadcasts on Global and Showcase in Canada. Internationally it can be seen on FX in the United Kingdom, The Science Channel, Halogen TV and in syndication and CW Plus in the United States, and FX Latin America in Mexico; as well as numerous broadcasters in Europe and Asia. International distribution is handled by Oasis International. As of April 2012 the show can also be seen on Hulu.com.

ReGenesis

2004

Against the Wall poster
6.5

This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division.

Against the Wall

2011

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future poster
7.5

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future is a 1987–88 Canadian-American science fiction/action television series, merging live action with animation based on computer-generated images, that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian and American syndication.

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future

1987

Playmakers poster
4.6

The series is a gritty ensemble drama about the off-field lives of a group of players on a pro football team and how they deal with the pressure of being on the professional level.

Playmakers

2003

The Jane Show poster
6.0

Aspiring novelist Jane Black suddenly winds up unemployed. Hoping for a more conventional lifestyle, she goes in search of a job, hoping to find something with a 40-hour work week and maybe even dental insurance. Her adventures in the corporate world are not so ordinary, however, and she learns that a normal life may not be so normal after all.

The Jane Show

2006

Jann poster
6.2

In Jann, Jann Arden plays a fictionalized, self-deprecating version of herself: a singer songwriter of a “certain age” in severe denial of the harsh reality that her former music career is slowly (okay rapidly) fading away. But it’s not just Jann’s career that’s on life support – she’s newly single (don’t remind her), her sister may disown her, and her mother may be showing early signs of memory loss. Jann's personal life is in shambles and she's convinced that the cure-all is to enlist a new manager to help rebrand her image. Filled with plenty of LOL moments, she embarks on a quest to return to greatness and go viral, but instead gets tangled in the pressures of her ‘real’ life. Jann is at the crossroads between who she was and who she wants to be. Can Jann stage a comeback, reclaim fame…and be there for the people who love her?

Jann

2019

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye poster
6.9

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

1983

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story poster
NR

True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

2002

Lives of the Saints poster
5.6

Vittorio Innocente, a young man, estranged from the tragedies of his Italian immigrant family, has spent his adult life denying his past. When his estranged father starts to stalk Vittorio's sister, Rita, with murderous intent, Vittorio is moved to return to his family and uncover the decades-old secrets that have torn his family apart.

Lives of the Saints

2004